Good morning Monks! I got this squared away by using waitfor (which I'd never been able to get to work prior) like so:

$MRV_match = $MRV_obj->waitfor('MMDDhhmmYYYY.*\n');
my $installprompttime = strftime ('%m%d%H%M%Y', gmtime);
$MRV_output = $MRV_obj->print("$installprompttime\ny");
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